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1968608078Berkeley California: The Hart Press 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Victor Anderson. Octavo. 4 2pp. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Fine. Issued as a Christmas greeting with publisher's slip laid in. The Hart Press unknown
19231390293New York NY: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vi 217 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Parchment white spine with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has moderate shelving wear large open tears along the fore corners and spine tears along the head edges and stains throughout. Boards have mild shelving wear and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock is splitting along the front hinge has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Shelved Room C. 1390293. Special Collections. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1928007249Garden City N.Y. Doubleday Doran & Co. 1928 1928. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1st American edition; later printing 432 pages 22 cm ; LCCN: 28-25185 ; LC: PZ3.H981; PR6015.U9; Dewey: 823.91 ; OCLC: 920277 ; "In this satiric view of intellectual life in the 1920s diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously by characters based on celebrities of the time such as D.H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield and Huxley himself." ; "The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and witty conversation." ; lavender cloth with green and purple paste down spine title label ; no dustjacket ; bright green harlequin-design endpapers ; sunning to spine ; slight wear ; else G <br/> <br/> Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928 hardcover
1931200721Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company 1931. First American edition. Spine stamping dulled a bit slight shelf wear else fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket with a bit of wear at the ends of the spine. 8vo decorative moire with black cloth spine. With the book label of Wlater Chrysler on the front pastedown. Doubleday, Doran and Company unknown
1936014900London: Chatto and Windus 1936. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 303pp. Sharp First British Edition of this anthology of essays. Bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Spine and edges toning else Fine. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket 7s. 6d. net has some small chips to the crown and tips. Tiny closed tears at the heel. Spine panel toned. Two small pieces of reinforcing tape on the verso. Still solid and complete and quite presentable. A pretty collectable copy at a great price. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1936309666LONDON: CHATTO AND WINDUS. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Fore edge foxed. Spine on jacket age toned with soil spots. Shallow chipping at crest of spine on jacket. Short edge tears at corners of jacket. . CHATTO AND WINDUS. hardcover
1936127977London: Chatto & Windus 1936 First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good lightly soiled d.j. Spine of jacket lightly browned. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
1944138400New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1944. First edition of Huxley's complex and powerful novel preceding the first English edition. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription. First published in 1944 by Harper & Brothers in New York Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop follows the story of Sebastian Barnack a young poet who holidays with his hedonistic uncle in Florence. Many of the philosophical themes discussed in the novel are explored further in Huxley's 1945 his comparative study of mysticism The Perennial Philosophy. The book's title derives from Hotspur's death speech in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 Act V Scene 4: "But thought's the slave of life and life time's fool; and time that takes survey of all the world must have a stop." Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
19635983Cambridge: The Psychedelic Review 1963. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 260 pages. Printed wraps slightly discolored with a nick on the joint. Else fine. <br /><br />The second number of the quarterly journal of psychedelic experience led by the school of Timothy Leary Richard Alpert and their peers. Includes articles on botanical sources of New World narcotics and on the treatment of alcoholism with psychedelic drugs. The Psychedelic Review paperback
1959015167Harper 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Not Ex-Library Copy. Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.Text Unmarked.Binding Is Solid.Not Ex-Library Copy.D.J. Clipped.First Edition First Printing. Harper hardcover
194430285New York: Harper & Brothers 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. Several chips some fairly large. Stated first edition. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1982187702London: Chatto & Windus 1982. First Edition; 3rd impression. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1955622721London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1955. Hard cover in very good condition with an unclipped jacket in acceptable condition. General shelf and handling wear. The jacket is tanned with discolouration/blemishes creasing and a small repaired closed tear to head as well as minor chips and nicks to edges. Pageblock tanned and foxed light foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards are in fine condition for their age. Within pages are firmly bound and other than an occasional spot of foxing content unmarked. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. Routledge & Kegan Paul Hardcover
1997725367London: Macmillan 1997. Reprint . hardcover. Very Good/No D/J. 10x10x15. Nice bright set. 4 Volumes. Macmillan hardcover
192314329London: Chatto & Windus 1923. A first edition first printing published by Chatto & Windus in 1923. A very good copy with a neat gift inscription to the front paste down. Off setting to the front/rear paste downs and slight spotting internally. Binding is slightly loose. Some bumping and chipping to the head and base of the spine along with wear to the edges and corners. Some slight staining to the front and rear boards. Chatto & Windus hardcover
193723650London: Chatto and Windus 1937. A first edition first printing of 'Ends and Means' published by Chatto and Windus in 1937. A very good book in like unclipped wrapper. Some nicking and edgewear and browning to the spine. Small name and date within. Chatto and Windus unknown
194349379London: Chatto & Windus 1943. First edition. 8vo. viii 143 1 pp. Publisher's green cloth gilt lettered black spine panel dust jacket not price clipped. Jacket edge worn with losses and a few tissue repairs on the verso fading to the cloth where it has been exposed some spotting to the front and rear leaves. Huxley suffered from poor eyesight for most of his life here writing on the philosophy of sight and seeing and discussing his use of the techniques of Dr W.H. Bates who he erroneously believed could help him. London: Chatto & Windus unknown
193623654London: Chatto and Windus 1936. A first edition first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1936. A very good copy without one neat bookplate to the front endpaper. In the browned wrapper with a sliver of a chip to the head of the spine and to the corners. Chatto and Windus unknown
193254908London and New York: William Heinemann Ltd. and The Viking Press Inc. 1932. 8vo. This is copy no. 267 of an edition limited to 525 copies on India paper. xxxiv 889 pp. Full vellum with decorative device in black to front board & black lettering to spine. Yapp edges. In the original slipcase with paper label onlay. Area of loss to the lettering on the spine. Slipcase slightly rubbed and in VG condition. The vellum boards are clean. No ownership names. Internally very clean. . Very Good. Full Vellum. Limited Numbered Edition. 1932. William Heinemann, Ltd. and The Viking Press, Inc. 1932 hardcover
1935886T21London: Chatto & Windus 1935-1937. Cloth. Near Fine. 10" by 7.5". Not Stated. A smart set of two volumes of The Geographical Magazine with illustrations throughout. Two volumes. Founded in 1935 Geographical formerly The Geographical Magazine is the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers. The magazine is published monthly and contains illustrated articles on people places adventure travel and environmental issues as well as the latest academic research and discoveries in geography. Each volume is highly illustrated with photographs and maps many of which are in colour. Edited by Michael Huxley an English diplomatist and editor. This set includes: Volume I Nos. 1 - 6 May - October 1935. With articles on: our Stone-Age Contemporaries Pilgrim to Mecca Flying to India Across the Greenland Ice-Cap the German Universities and a Turtle Hunt in the Solomon Islands. Volume V Nos. 1 - 6 May - October 1937. With articles on: The National Trust Stones of Angkor a Festival in Yugoslavia the Dead Cities of Ceylon Australia's Flying Foxes and the Yami of Koto-Sho. In the original green cloth binding. Externally very smart with light fading to the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with a few pencil annotations. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of volume I. Near Fine Chatto & Windus hardcover
1977Q-0060120916Harper & Row 1977-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper & Row hardcover
19795783335G.L. Huxley 1979. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN:0853891745 G.L. Huxley paperback
1997Q-0820318647University of Georgia Press 1997-07-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Georgia Press hardcover
19654717<p>NEW YORK: A STUDIO BOOK. THE VIKING PRESS 1965. 144 pages. NearFine Hardcover no dj. Red cloth Gilt spine title.Light sunning of the spine. No Wear. Clean Unmarked throughout. Excellent binding ad hinges. 9/4"x7.3"x0.8". be41.</p> A STUDIO BOOK. THE VIKING PRESS
192813300080Later Printing in dust jacket. The book is near fine with a bookplate on the front pastedown. The unclipped dust jacket has intermittent paper loss along the top edge and at the foot of the spine. Doubleday Doran hardcover